The US security authorities on Wednesday warned the hospitals and healthcare providers of “an imminent cybercrime threat” and asked them to increase protection.

In an advisory released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and two other security agencies, the authorities said that hackers can target “credible information” using ransomware that can lead to “data theft and the disruption of healthcare services.”

The threat comes amid US health workers battle COVID-19, which killed nearly 226,000 in the country until now.

Also read: ‘This site was seized’: Donald Trump’s campaign website briefly hacked

On Tuesday, the campaign website of President Donald Trump was briefly hacked and the hackers instructed the visitors to send cryptocurrency to an address if they wanted the data disclosed.

On October 26, Trump’s Twitter account was hacked after a Dutch researcher correctly guessed the password as “maga2020!”